murloc

I think it has already been proven that there is no obvious correlation between being capable in mathematics and being a talented programmer. Thats so 1950's

Well said.

What do you think about node? Does it fall in your category of above-average people building tools for the average programmer?

I know its trivial once demystified specially using parser generators. But language design isn't though. Anyways i think your a pretty decent programmer.

Easy, he hand picked a 100 people of the JS community (including him) and then decided that hes the only competent programmer amongst them.

Like anything else in life there is front facing people that are generally good at marketing and would use other people's hard work to build technically inferior stuff on and be famous for. Not necessary a bad thing. The truly talented most of the time choose to go unnoticed. And there is always trolls like you who I don't know how they find the time to ship code ;p

But he writes coffeescript so unlike you he's a "top programmer". except for times when he writes javascript which probably would be when hes drunk or for whatever reasons his IQ has dropped.

http://repl.it/ should be on this list. I don't think anything on this list comes even close to compiling CPython, Ruby and Lua to JS.